Soon they made their appearance, accompanied by Martial; all frightfully
angry.
M. de Sairmeuse especially seemed beside himself.
He swore at everybody, accused everybody, threatened everybody.
He began by consigning all the keepers and guards to prison; he even
talked of demanding the dismissal of all the officers.
"As for that miserable Bavois," he exclaimed, "as for that cowardly
deserter, he shall be shot as soon as we capture him, and we will
capture him, you may depend upon it!"
They had hoped to appease the duke's wrath a little, by informing him of
Lacheneur's arrest; but he knew this already, for Chupin had ventured to
awake him in the middle of the night to tell him the great news.
The baron's escape afforded the duke an opportunity to exalt Chupin's
merits.
"The man who has discovered Lacheneur will know how to find this traitor
d'Escorval," he remarked.
M. de Courtornieu, who was more calm, "took measures for the restoration
of a great culprit to the hand of justice," as he said.
He sent couriers in every direction, ordering them to make close
inquiries throughout the neighborhood.
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